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$10 million, brought down to $1 million to be paid over time. i hope people are now seeing and understanding what is going on here. it's all now starting to come out. drain the swamp. is this an accurate characterization of your reporting, matthew? >> it's not. it's not. look, this is a complicated story, i think that's pretty clear here. the americans were out looking for this kind of vast trove of hacking tools, cyber weapons that had been stolen from the nsa and cia. the idea here, they weren't going to take it off the market to get them back. they were trying to figure out what was missing...

Increasingly it looks like there wasn't. for more on that russian intel story. >> a shadowy russian tricked american spies out of a hundred year.last they promised not justna information on donald trump but to deliver stolen national security agency cyber weapons.si it would also include compromising material on the president, it sounds like a spy novel. the nsa has been devastated by losing the secret hacking tools. they delivered cash in a suitcase to a berlin hotel room in september. it was supposed to be the first installment of a million dollar payout. the russians claimed the information...

Taxpayer dollars. thanks. >> the national security agency, pled guilty to violating the espionage act, charged with working at home without authorization on sensitive hacking tools, this employee worked with the developer and the agency's very elite hacking unit using antivirus software from a russian firm. this is obviously a major security breach, tipping off the nsa. >> wonder if they got anything after this. the world debate how to respond to north korean dictator kim jung un's latest icbm test so what choices does donald trump have. as the nation's top military leaders meet to come up wit...

There have been three nsa employees who have been arrested. we're not sure if that's the result, if they were responsible for the leak of this information. really the forensics are ongoing, and that's very disturbing. brian: how much damage was done? what was lost? >> i would say massive kang. many in the ic believe it's worse than snowden. if he released the code words? this was the code. these are hacking tools. the. in sa is the most sophisticated agency in the world at hacking into foreign computers. and now we are unable to protect our own which is of concern. brian: i wish that was fake ...

Highly classified information but he didn't leak these kind of hacking tools, the way the nsa steals material from computers, protect networks and eavesdrop on communications. according to the allegations here that's exactly the materials this man brought home and that russian hackers were able to steal. and another source of mine said that this is a really aggressive move by the russians. this is a game on moment, as he put it, to go after a contractor at home. and also, katy, explains why the federal government has cracked down in recent months and essentially banned the software from federa...